The Anarchists

From Diderot to Camus, from Thoreau to Vanzetti, a ringing roll-call of the great non-conformists and dissenters.

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Table of Contents

Part one The Theory

Introduction

Section one Anarchism as a Critique of SocietyDenis Diderot The Fall of Natural ManErrico Malatesta Anarchism and GovernmentPierre Joseph Proudhon Property the RevolutionWilliam Godwin The Rights of Man and the Principles of SocietyMichael Bakunin Social and Economic Bases of AnarchismPeter Kropotkin Modern Science and AnarchismBenjamin R. Tucker State Socialism and LibertarianismRudolf Rocker The Ideology of Anarchism

Section two: Anarchism as a Style of LifeJoseph Conrad The Inspector and the Professor Fyodor Dostoyevsky Underground ManLeo Tolstoy What Is To Be Done?Albert Camus Rebellious ManEmma Goldman Love Among the FreeSacco and Vanzetti "...we will fight until the last moment"

Section Three: Anarchism as a System of PhilosophyMax Stirner The Ego and His OwnHenry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Josiah Warren True Civilization and Personal LibertyWilliam Ernest Hocking Anarchism and ConsentHerbert Read Anarchism and Modern SocietyPaul Arthur Schilpp Philosophy and the Social Crisis

Part Two The PracticeSection one The Historical DimensionGerald Brenan Anarchism in SpainRichard Hostetter Anarchism Versus the Italian StateSamuel Yellen American Propagandists of the DeedBarbara W. Tuchman Anarchism in FranceThomas G. Masaryk Land and Freedom: Peasant Anarchism in RussiaGeorge Woodcock Anarchism in Latin America and Northern EuropeAlexander Berkman Kronstadt: The Final Act in Russian Anarchism Hugh Thomas Anarchist Labor Federations in the Spanish Civil War

Section Two The Sociological DimensionGeorge Sorel Class War the Ethics of ViolencePaul Goodman On Treason against Natural SocietiesRobert Presthus The Social Dysfunctions of OrganizationPhilip Selznick Revolution Sacred and ProfaneKarl Shapiro On the Revival of Anarchism